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THE  DIRECTORS  AND  REGENTS  OF  THE  ART 
MUSEUM  OF  SANTAFE,  NEW  MEXICO; REQUEST 
YOUR  PRESENCE  ON  THE  OPENING  DAYOFAN 
EXHIBITION  OF  PORTRAITS  OFAMERICAN  INDIANS 
BY  MR,W.LANGDONKIHN,AT  FOUR  O'CLOCK  IN  THE 
AFTERNOON  OF  MONDAY  MARCH  TWENTIETH  AT 
THE  ANDERSON  GALLERIES,  CORNER  OF  PARK 
AVENUE  AND  FIFTY- NINTH  STREET,  NEW  YORK 
CITY.  THE  EXHIBITION  WILL  CONTINUE  UNTILAPRIL 
SECOND, NINETEEN  HUNDRED  TWENTY-TWO, 


MRS.  WADES-IN- WATER 

Akim-so-yi 
Blackfeet   Indian   woman   of   Montana 


EXHIBITION 

PORTRAITS  OF  AMERICAN  INDIANS 


BY 

W.      LANGDON      KIHN 


Together  with  important  examples  of  ancient  and 
modern  pottery,  blankets,  jewelry,  bead  and  leather 
work  made  by  the  Pueblo  and  Blackfeet  Tribes. 


Under    the    auspices    of    the 

ART       MUSEUM       OF      SANTA      FE 
NEW  MEXICO 


March  twentieth  to  April  second 

Nineteen    hundred    twenty -two 


THE    ANDERSON    GALLERIES 

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NEW         YORK       CITY 


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A  NOTE  ON  THE  PUEBLO  INDIAN 
SECTION  OF  THE  EXHIBITION 

The  land  and  the  people  of  our  Southwestern  country  invite  and 
stimulate  the  artist.  The  land  is  a  silent  land,  a  land  of  perpetual 
Sunday,  and  its  people,  who  work  the  soil,  share  the  quality  of  ten 
derness  that  is  characteristic  of  the  landscape.  I  welcome  Mr.  Kihn 
among  the  all  too  few  recorders  and  interpreters  of  these  ancient 
tribes,  whose  features  and  traditions  are  rapidly  being  changed  and 

effaced. 

STEWART  CULIN 


MARIA  LEWIS 

Osharanye 
Indian  woman  of  Laguna,  New  Mexico 


A  NOTE  ON  THE  BLACKFEET  INDIAN 
SECTION  OF  THE  EXHIBITION 

The  Blackfeet  Indians  have  long  been  famous  in  the  history 
of  the  Northwest.  They  were  successful  warriors  against  other 
tribes,  and,  in  early  days,  against  the  first  trappers  who  pene 
trated  the  Northwest.  It  was  they  who  had  a  skirmish,  in 
which  they  lost  a  man,  with  the  Lewis  and  Clark  party  in  1806, 
though  another  tribe  has  been  credited  with  this  attack.  The 
Blackfeet  have  never  been  definitely  at  war  with  the  United 
States. 

So  long  as  there  were  buffalo,  the  Blackfeet  lived  well  and 
happily ;  but  with  the  buffalo's  extermination  came  dire  trouble. 
Then  for  two  or  three  years  they  starved,  and  of  those  living 
in  the  United  States,  one  quarter  of  the  people  died  from  lack 
of  food.  Later,  better  times  came.  Some  cattle  were  given 
them  and,  at  one  time,  they  seemed  on  the  way  to  self-support 
and  independence;  but  incompetent  agents,  handling  their 
cattle  badly,  threw  them  back  into  poverty.  Their  cattle  dis 
appeared;  cold  and  drought  carried  off  more  and  more  of  their 
live  stock;  and  today  the  Blackfeet  are  poor  and  suffering; 
for  on  their  cold  and  bleak  reservation  there  is  no  work — no 
way  by  which  they  may  earn  money  to  buy  food. 

We  call  the  Indian  a  savage,  but  this  is  not  the  name  given 
him  by  those  who  have  lived  long  and  intimately  with  him. 
We  know  that  in  truth  he  is  a  human  being — not  very  different 
from  ourselves.  If  his  skin  is  dark,  if  his  ways  of  life  are  unlike 
those  of  the  city  man  or  woman,  yet  he  is  governed  by  the 
same  emotions  as  we  are,  and  the  needs  of  his  life  are  the  same 
as  ours.  He  has  a  wife  and  children  whom  he  dearly  loves,  and 
anxieties  about  their  welfare  bring  to  him  the  same  cares 
that  trouble  us  about  our  own  dear  ones.  If  food  is  wanting, 
he  is  hungry.  The  same  wind  that  freezes  us,  chills  him. 


We  must  all  sympathize  with  the  hard  conditions  that  the 
Blackfeet  are  facing  today.  They  need  help,  but  they  do  not 
need  and  should  not  have  charity.  If  work  can  be  furnished 
them,  by  which  they  may  earn  food  and  support  for  their 
dear  ones;  or  if  people  are  willing  to  buy  the  examples  of  their 
ancient  arts  and  industries  which  they  offer  for  sale,  these 
things  will  help  them  far  more  than  will  gifts  of  money. 

I  could  wish  that  the  officials  of  the  Great  Northern  Rail 
road,  who  collected  the  material  of  Indian  manufacture  to 
be  shown  with  Mr.  Kihn's  pictures,  might  have  sent  on  more 
of  it,  as  each  article  is  to  be  sold  for  the  benefit  of  its  maker. 

Mr.  Kihn's  pictures  are  faithful  portraitures  of  these  Black- 
feet  Indians,  many  of  whom  I  knew  well  in  past  times.  In 
his  collection  are  represented  ancient  men  like  White  Grass, 
Curly  Bear,  and  Many  Tail  Feathers,  with  whom  I  lived  in 
the  olden  days,  when  their  cheeks  were  unwrinkled  and  their 
footfalls  light  and  free. 

I  feel  that  the  pictures  of  these  people  will  interest,  not  only 
all  artists  and  those  who  know  something  about  Indians,  but 
also  all  who  possess  a  real  love  for  the  life  out  of  doors — the 
widespread  spaces  of  their  own  prairies  and  mountains. 

GEORGE  BIRD  GRINNELL 


GRATEFUL  ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 

is  made  to 
THE  ART  MUSEUM  OF  SANTA  FE,  NEW  MEXICO 

who  fostered  this  exhibition  as  a  part  of  their  work  in 
bringing  new  life  to  the  Indians  of  the  Southwest  and 
their  crafts 


to 
MR.  LOUIS  W.  HILL 

PRESIDENT  OF  THE  GREAT  NORTHERN  RAILWAY 

whose  real  interest  in  the  Blackfeet  Indians  has  led  him 
to  loan  many  interesting  items  for  this  exhibition  and  to 
send  examples  of  Indian  workmanship  to  be  sold  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Indian  makers 


and  to 
MR.  STEWART  CULIN  OF  BROOKLYN,  NEW  YORK 

for  loaning  a  rare  collection  of  blankets  woven  by  the 
Indians  of  the  Southwest. 


MRS.  LONG 

E-no-cm 
Assiniboine  Sioux  Indian  woman  of  Montana 


W.  LANGDON  KIHN 
CHASE  -  ENEMY  -  IN  -.THE.  -  WATER 

Zoi-och-ka-tsai-ya 


BLACKFEET  INDIANS  OF  THE  NORTHWEST 


JOHN  GROUND 
"  CHIEF .  EAGLE  *  CALF  » 

Nina*p  eeta-nista 

Interpreter.       Student  at  Carlisle  Indian  School.       Son  of  Big-Painted-Lodge,  a  medicine  man.       (See 
number  fifty-four.)     Age  forty-nine  years. 


BIG  -  MIKE  -  LEFT  -  HAND 

Me-spkgykg-si 
White  Horse  Society  dancer.      Old  time  warrior  against  the  Sioux.    Age  seventy  years. 


HEAVY -BREAST 

E'sogo-e-kn-e 

Interpreter.     Age  forty-five  years. 


WADES-IN- WATER 

So-yi 

Chief  officer  of  Indian  Police.     Age  fifty  years. 


MRS.  WADES-IN-WATER 

Akim-so-yi 
Wife  of  Wades-in- Water.     (See  number  four.)     Age  forty-five  years. 


YELLOW-HEAD 

Oui-tah-co-to-con 
Officer  of  Indian  Police.     White  Horse  Society  dancer.     Age  thirty  years. 


MRS.  YELLOW-HEAD 

Akim-oui-tah-co-to-con 
Wife  of  Yellow-Head.     (See  number  six.)     Age  thirty  years. 


CHIEF  CURLY-BEAR 

Nina-caw-yeu-sue-shes 

Chief  of  the  Blackfeet  Indian  Tribe 


8 
JOHN-TWO-GUNS-WHITE-CALF 

Notacna-ohnamuc-o-nista-puka 

Chief  of  Indian  Police.     Indian  Judge.     Son  of  the  historically  famous  Chief  White-Calf,  statesman 

and  warrior.     Age  forty-five  years. 


BOSS-RIBS 

A-yu-su-sah-mi-wa 

Old  time  Indian  warrior.     Age  eighty  years. 


10 
OLD-LADY-GOOD-SCISSORS 

My-ig-cy-ke 
Age  eighty-five  years. 


11 

MANY-TAIL-FEATHERS 

A-co-sue-wa-ches-me 

Old  time  warrior  against  the  Sioux.     Age  eighty-five  y< 


12 
LUCILLE 

A-sue-ta-mo 
Age  forty  years. 


13 
CHIEF  CURLY-BEAR 

Nina-caw-yeu-sue-ches 

Only  living  Indian  Chief  of  the  Blackfeet  Tribe.     The  last  of  a  triumvirate  of  Chiefs  that  ruled  the 

tribe.     Age  eighty-five  years. 


14 

SHORTY-WHITE-GRASS 

A-po-to-ye-see 

Reported  to  be  over  one  hundred  years  of  age.     Oldest  living  warrior.     Garment  front  adorned 
with  Indian  enemies'  scalps.     Father-in-law  of  Chief  Curly-Bear.     (See  number  thirteen.) 


15 
TURTLE 

Spo-pie 

Most  famous  Blackfeet  Indian  hunter.     Finest  Crazy  Dog  Society  dancer.     Age  fifty  years. 


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LAZY-BOY 

Pi-ki-p-ck-mi-pi 

Blackfeet  Indian  of  Montana 


16 
FISH-WOLF-ROBE 

Ma-mee-ya-co-yesee-con 

Leader  of  all  Indian  dancers.     Age  forty-five  years. 


17 
BERRY- WOMAN 

Mee-na-ku 
Wife  of  Fish-Wolf-Robe.     (See  number  sixteen.)     Age  forty  years. 


18 
HEAVY  BREAST 

E-so-go-e-kn-e 

Interpreter.     Age  forty-five  years. 


19 

JOHN  GROUND 
CHIEF-EAGLE-CALF 

Nina-peeta-nista 

Interpreter.    Student  at  Carlisle  Indian  School.    Son  of  Big-Painted-Lodge,  a  medicine  man.     (See 
number  fifty-four.)     Age  forty-nine  years. 


20 
BLACKFEET  INDIAN 

Name  not  known 

21 
LAZY-BOY 

Pi-ki-p-ck-mi-pe 
Indian  hunter  and  trapper.     Age  thirty-five  years. 


22 
BOSS-RIBS 

A-yu-su-sah-mi-wa 

Old  time  Indian  warrior.     Age  eighty  years. 


23 
BLACKFEET  INDIAN  BOY 

Name  not  known 


24 
BULL-PLUME 

Sta-me-ches-sa-pu-pa 

Crazy  Dog  Society  dancer.     Warrior.     Age  forty  years. 


25 
CHIEF-COWARD 

Nina-go-pm 
Hunter  and  trapper.     Age  fifty-fire  years. 


26 
JOHN-NIGHT-GUNS 

Su-me-na-ma-can 

Grass  Society  dancer.     Died  recently.     Age  thirty  years. 


27 
MRS.  LONG 

E-no-cm 

Assiniboine  Sioux  woman.     Age  thirty-fire  years. 


28 
BLACKFEET  INDIAN 

Name  not  known 

29 
NORTH-PEIGAN-WOMAN 

A-pa-to-se-pe-con-a-kee 

Daughter  of  a  Canadian  Blackf eet  Indian.     Age  six  years. 


30 
CHIEF  CURLY-BEAR 

Nina-caw-yeu-sue-ches 

Only  living  Indian  Chief  of  the  Blackfeet  Tribe.     The  last  of  a  triumvirate  of  Chiefs  that  ruled  the 

tribe.     Age  eighty-five  years. 


31 
PETER  OSCAR 

(Indian  name  not  known) 
Carpenter  by  trade.     Age  fifty  years. 


32 
BAD-MARRIAGE 

(Indian  name  not  known) 

Rough-rider.     Age  eighteen  years. 


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TEREVIO  GOUNAE 

Ka-o-u-ni 
Former  Pueblo  Indian  Governor 


33 
EAGLE-TAIL-FEATHERS 

(Indian  name  not  known) 
Indian  Butcher.     Age  sixty  years. 


34 
YELLOW-WOMAN 

Oui-ta-ko 

Loaned  by  courtesy  of  Miss  Hervey.     Age  thirty  years. 


35 
MRS.  CURLY-BEAR 

Akim-nina-yeu-sue-ches 
Wife  of  Chief  Curly-Bear.     (See  number  thirteen.)     Died  January,  1920.      Age  fifty  years. 


36 
JOHN-TWO-GUNS-WHITE-CALF 

Notacna-ohnamuoo-nista-puka 

Chief  of  Indian  Police.     Indian  Judge.     Son  of  the  historically  famous  Chief  White-Calf,  statesman 

and  warrior.     Age  forty-five  years. 


37 
SINGING-LONG-TIME 

Me-sa-min-ka-kee 
Indian  child  dancer.     Age  nine  year*. 


38 
GO-IN-HIGH-WOMAN 

Ca-e-ch-a-pme 
Daughter  of  Chief-Eagle-Calf.     (See  number  one.)     Age  twenty  years. 


39 
SINGS-OUT 

Indian  name  not  known 
Age  twenty  years. 


40 
GOMES-BACK 

Pa-yo-ta-po-ma-ca 
Wife  of  Bull-Plume.     Age  forty-five  years. 


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SUSIE  GARCIA 

Showeme 
Indian  girl  of  Laguna,  New  Mexico 


41 

MRS.  YELLOW-WOLF 

Oui-tah-co-yesee 

Age  twenty-five  years. 


42 
JOHN-TWO-GUNS-WHITE-CALF 

Notacna-ohnarnuc-o-nista-puka 

Chief  of  Indian  Police.     Indian  Judge.     Son  of  the  historically  famous  Chief  White-Calf, 

and  warrior.     Age  forty-five  years. 


43 
CHIEF  CURLY-BEAR 

Nina-caw-yeu-sue-ches 

Only  living  Indian  Chief  of  the  Blackfeet  Tribe.     The  last  of  a  triumvirate  of  Chiefs  that  ruled  the 

tribe.     Age  eighty-five  years. 


44 
BEAR-HEAD 

Caw-yeu-to-con 

Hunter.     Leader  of  war  parties.     Age  sixty  years. 


45 
WHITE-QUIVER 

Ches-ches-no-pa 

Famous  Indian  warrior.     Leader  of  war  parties.     Age  sixty  years. 


46 
BERRY-WOMAN  AND  HER  CHILD 

Mee-na-ku 

Wife  of  Fish-Wolf-Robe.     (See  number  sixteen.)     Age  forty  years. 


47 
WHITE-DOG 

A-pue-me-ta 

Crazy  Dog  Society  dancer.     Indian  warrior.     Age  fifty-five  years. 


48 
LITTLE-SINGING-WOMAN 

Pa-ches-co-co-ma-kee 

Age  fifteen  years. 


49 
PRETTY 

An-i-top-si 
Age  twenty  years. 


50 
MANY-TAIL-FEATHERS 

A-co-sue-wa-ches-me 

Old  time  warrior  against  the  Siouz.     Age  eighty-five  years. 


51 
WOLF-ROBE 

Co-ye-see-con 

Peigan  or  Canadian  Blackfeet  Indian.     Age  sixty  years. 


52 
TURTLE 

Spo-pie 

Most  famous  Blackfeet  Indian  hunter.     Finest  Crazy  Dog  Society  dancer.     Age  fifty  years. 


53 
ARROW-TOP 

Oui-maco-to-sckee 

Indian  wrestler  and  rider.     Age  thirty  years. 


54 
BIG-PAINTED-LODGE 

Oui-macats-co-con 

Indian  medicine  man.      Father  of  Chief -Eagle-Calf.      (See  number  one.)      Died  recently.      Age 

eighty  years. 


55 
PUMPKIN 

Indian  name  not  known 
Daughter  of  Chief-Eagle-Calf.     (See  number  one.)    Age  three  years. 


ELIZABETH  RILEY 

Shaotyetsa 
Indian  girl  of  Laguna,  New  Mexico 


PUEBLO  INDIANS  OF  THE  SOUTHWEST 

56 
JUANITA  JOHNSON 

Osharatyetsa 
Acoma  Indian  pottery  maker.     Age  forty  years. 

57 
JOSE 

Saiow 
Laguna  medicine-man.     Age  eighty  years. 

58 
ULYSSES  GRANT  PAISANO 

Ka-y-tuwa,  of  the  Lake  Clan 

Governor  of  the  Laguna  Indian  Pueblos.     Holding  silver  mounted  ebony  cane  presented  by  Abraham 

Lincoln  to  the  Pueblo  Governor  and  handed  to  each  successor.     The  Indians  are  very  proud  of 

Lincoln's  autograph  which  adorns  the  head  of  the  cane.     Age  fifty  years. 

59 
ELIZABETH  RILEY 

Shaotyetsa 

Laguna  Indian  girl.    Daughter  of  John  Riley.     (See  number  seventy-two.)     Age  nine  years. 

60 
FELIPE 

Indian  Name  not  known 

Pueblo  Indian  of  Laguna,  New  Mexico. 

61 
SUSIE  GARCIA 

Showeme,  of  the  Turquis  Clan 

Laguna  Indian  girl,  with  rich  necklaces  of  coral  and  turquoise  beads  and  silver  squash  blossoms  , 
crosses  and  beads.     Age  eighteen  years. 


62 
CORA  RILEY 

Koriyaitsa 

Young  woman  of  Laguna,  with  silver  squash  blossom  necklace.     Daughter  of  John  Riley.     (See 
number  seventy-two.)     Age  eighteen  years. 


63 

MRS.  CANFIELD 

Waykaye 

Woman  of  Laguna. 


64 
JOSE 

Saiow 
Laguna  medicine-man.     Age  eighty  years. 


65 

MARIA  LEWIS 

Osharanye 
Woman  of  Laguna  with  characteristic  example  of  Acoma  pottery.     Age  thirty  years. 


66 
LUCY  CAISARO 

Kohnye 
Laguna  Indian  girl.     Age  eighteen  years. 


67 
LAGUNA  INDIAN  WOMAN 

Name  not  known 


68 
JUANITA  WEEKER 

Shaycetuwesa 

Laguna  Indian  girl.     Age  fifteen. 


69 
ANGUS  KE-WIT-SISCHE 

Kewasishe,  of  the  Tree  Clan 

Pueblo  farmer.     Age  sixty  years. 


70 
EUNICE 

Indian  name  not  known 
Laguna  Indian  girl. 


71 
MRS.  MARMON 

Sa-yh 
Woman  of  Laguna. 


72 
JOHN  RILEY 

Gime 

Pueblo  mocassin  maker.     Father  of  Cora  and  Elizabeth  Riley.     (See  numbers  fifty-nine,  sixty-two 
and  seventy-five.)     Age  forty-five  years. 


73 
AITCHEE  GUNN 

Aitcheyai 
Woman  of  Laguna. 


74 
TEREVIO  GOUNAE 

Ka-o-u-ni 
Former  Pueblo  Indian  Governor.     Age  eighty-five  years. 


75 
CORA  RILEY 

Koriyaitsa 

Young  woman  of  Laguna.     Daughter  of  John  Riley.      (See  number  seventy-two.)      Age  eighteen 

years. 


76 
MRS.  WM.  PAISANO 

Ka-u-tse 

Wife  of  Laguna  Indian  Judge.     Age  forty  years. 


77 
ACOMA  MAN 

Sematey 
Acoma  Indian  with  large  silver  ear  rings.     Age  fifty  years. 


78 
TEREVIO  GOUNAE 

Ka-o-u-ni 
Former  Pueblo  Indian  Governor.     Age  eighty-five  years. 


WADES-IN-WATER 

So-yi 
Blackfeet  Indian  of  Montana 


LANDSCAPES  OF  THE  NORTHWEST 

79 
BROWNING,  MONTANA 

80 
BROWNING,  MONTANA 

81 
GLACIER  NATIONAL  PARK 


82 
GLACIER  NATIONAL  PARK 

83 
GLACIER  NATIONAL  PARK 

84 
MONTANA  PRAIRIE  TOWN 


85 
BROWNING,  MONTANA 


86 

THUNDER  CEREMONY  OF  THE  BLACKFEET  INDIANS  ON  THE 
PLAINS  OF  MONTANA 


LANDSCAPES  OF  THE  SOUTHWEST 

87 
FROM  THE  PUEBLO  OF  ACOMA,  NEW  MEXICO 


88 
PUEBLO  OF  LACUNA,  NEW  MEXICO 


ABSENT  BLACKFEET  INDIAN  FRIENDS 


Charlie-After-Buffalo 


Clear-Up 


Short-Face 


Medicine-Otter-Woman 


Wolf-Runner 


Little-Fox-Woman 


This  Exhibition  is  under  the  direction 

of 
Walter  Monroe  Grant 

and 
Mollie  Higgins  Smith 


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